What a difference a year makes. Nothing brings that point home more than looking back at the men’s and women’s tennis rankings at the end of 2010—and comparing it to today’s ranking.

For the last two years, the ladies’ rankings were as follows:

2010

Caroline Wozniacki

Vera Zvonareva

Kim Clijsters

Serena Williams

Venus Williams

Samantha Stosur

Francesca Schiavone

Jelena Jankovic

Elena Dementieva

Victoria Azarenka

2011

Caroline Wozniacki

Petra Kvitova

Victoria Azarenka

Maria Sharapova

Na Li

Samantha Stosur

Vera Zvonareva

Agnieszka Radwanska

Marion Bartoli

Andrea Petkovic

Only four of the WTA top ten ranked women at end of 2010 appear again in the top ten in 2011 after the ladies concluded their battle for the 2011 WTA championship.

Many of the perennial “standards” have faded from sight with no Williams sisters or Kim Clijsters making the cut.

For the men, the story is a bit different. While the ATP top ten ranked players at the end of 2010 had a different order, most of the names are the same in 2011—now, as the final three men struggle to make the ATP elite eight field for the 2011 year-end championship.

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